pt. 1. A journey to Vienna -- Stuff of sleep and dreams -- The nature of psychological evidence -- pt. 2. The mystery of Walden Pond -- James Joyce: At the opera ; Close-up ; City of exile ; The injustice collector ; Psychopathology of Shem -- pt. 3. Tristimania: the madness of art -- Portrait of the artist as an old man -- Abulia and the journey to Lausanne -- The madness of Virginia Woolf -- Wystan Auden and the scissors-man -- A cave of one's own -- The critic as wound-dresser -- pt. 4. The James family: Father and children ; The anguish of Alice ; The terror of the usual -- The killer and the slain -- Kipling's American double.
